My thesis examines the CIA Weekly Summary reports on the 1968 Student Movement in Mexico. In July of 1968 University students in Mexico began protesting against the ruling
political party, the PRI, calling for greater ...

The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) gained power in Nicaragua in 1979 through a militant revolutionary struggle that succeeded in accomplishing unprecedented popular mobilization of heterogeneous groups. ...

My thesis uses Adelard of Bath as a case study to understand the factors that led dozens of scholars in the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Latin West to seek out and translate Arabic works on the science of the stars, ...

This thesis explores the relationship between mothers, scientific experts and food
advertisers in the turn-of-the-century United States. Industrialization and urbanization created a thriving consumer society in the early ...

This thesis traces both the popular and psychiatric assumptions about homosexuality that guided the murder trial of Seymour Levin, a seventeen-year-old native Philadelphian who in 1949 was accused of raping and murdering ...

In the years leading up to the 1711 premiere of Handel's opera Rinaldo, the first Italian opera composed specifically for the London stage, British writers hotly contested the merits of this new art form. At a critical ...

In the late 19th to early 20th century, mob violence became a practice though that characterized the American community. The story of the lynching, accepted as an event involving black men,
white men and white women, would ...

This thesis explores the event in Manningtree, a small town in Essex, in 1645 that began the two‐year period that would come to be called England’s “Witch Craze” and the circumstances that lead to those events. The trials ...

This thesis aims to compare the ways in which Joan of Arc was portrayed by the
French Resistance with the way she was depicted by the collaborationist Vichy government between 1940 and 1944. The fact that she could represent ...